Introduction to the evaluation

Question 1: Introduction: what did you make, who did you work with and where did the original idea come from?

The type of film that we were asked to make for our coursework was a horror film. We researched ideas for horror films by watching and analysing existing horror films.  By doing that we picked up little bits and pieces from lots of horror films that we liked the look of and hoped to partially recreate in our film. We also looked into the age rating that we were going to aim our horror film at and we decided to categorise our film as a 15 due to the findings that most of the people who watch horror films are 15-24.

Our initial idea was inspired by a “Saw” type of situation. 

Finding stranded people in a dark cold room was something that people found scary and freaky, which is why we decided to look into that type of horror. The fear in the person in the film is reflected in the audience reaction to what happens on the screen. Also the CCTV aspect of our film was influenced by the ‘’Paranormal Activity’’ films which have been released in the last couple of years.

We thought that brought an extra realism to the film and it made the viewer more engrossed by the film. We are trying to create a psychological horror film which scares the audience but also makes them think about the situation. We chose psychological because we felt that it was the genre that we could get the audience involved the most in and make it seem the most realistic. The first 2-3 minute clip of our film does not reveal too much about what has happened to the character, which is why it makes our clip and attractive film to watch the rest of.

Our production has worked out well. We have encountered problems along the way, them being the struggle of finding a location and the switching of groups, but now everything has settled down the group is working effectively. Our group consists of three members, Andy, Laura and James. We have gotten along well and we worked effectively as a team through the planning phase and also while we were filming. The problem that we first encountered was working in a group of 4. We felt that it was too big a group size and that everybody wasn’t getting enough work to do, which is why we felt that it was a good idea to split into 2 groups of 2. Then Laura joined our group to make a 3 which was something which we were happy with. The other problem was finding a location; we were looking for an abandoned derelict building. We had found many which looked good on the internet but none of them were approved and safe to enter, we finally found a location which was suitable and it was easy to access due to it being owned by the family members of one of our group, this proved to be our final location and it was very good for our film.